expediency

英 [ɪkˈspiːdiənsi]

美 [ɪkˈspiːdiənsi]

n.  不得已而做的事; 权宜之计

复数：expediencies　

GRE

BNC.19527 / COCA.19664

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 不得已而做的事;权宜之计
  Expediencymeans doing what is convenient rather than what is morally right.
  1. It seems political expediency, rather than absolute economic need, will determine who gains from the conflict...
     看来是政治上的权宜之计，而不是绝对的经济需求，将决定谁会从这场冲突中获益。
  2. This was a matter less of morals than of expediency.
     此举只是权宜之计，不关乎道德问题。

英英释义

noun

• the quality of being suited to the end in view
  Synonym:expedience

双语例句

• He led the country into war not out of economic expediency but because he believed it was morally necessary.
  他带领美国参战并不是出于经济上的利益，而是因为他相信美国在道义上必须参战。
• Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?& in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable?
  在政府中，如果实际上不是由大多数人而是由良知来决定正误的，而大多数人只决定那些适用于便利规则的问题，这样的政府不可能存在吗？
• There will always be tensions between principle and expediency.
  原则和权宜之计之间总是矛盾重重。
• It seems political expediency, rather than absolute economic need, will determine who gains from the conflict
  看来是政治上的权宜之计，而不是绝对的经济需求，将决定谁会从这场冲突中获益。
• However, sharing data via the file system is inherently slow, because disk input and output operations cannot match the expediency of memory.
  但是，通过文件系统共享数据很慢，因为磁盘输入和输出操作的效率远远比不上内存。
• It had planted the seeds of violent extremism and sacrificed long-term stability to expediency.
  这种政策还埋下了暴力极端主义的种子，为了权宜之计而牺牲了长期稳定。
• Inaction is, perhaps, inevitable for politicians faced with a difficult trade-off between political expediency and fiscal reality.
  对于在政治权宜之计和财政现实之间进行艰难取舍的政客们来说，不作为或许是不可避免的。
• Money and position seemed all that mattered. a person who places expediency above principle.
  金钱和地位似乎凌驾于一切之上。把方便私利凌驾于法则原则之上的人。
• Among these vanguards of the frontier the diet prescribed by available resources and field expediency became, to a degree, traditional.
  这些开拓先锋靠现有的资源和地域便利得到食物，从某种程度上讲，这也已构成了传统。
• The goals of the vicissitudes of tax system of China gradually change, but its immovability is coercion and expediency.
  在中国的税制变迁中，不断变化的目标背后相同的变迁理念是强制和权宜。